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userdomain: no longer allow unprivileged users to read kernel symbols

PATCH New Nicolas Iooss 2 participants 2 messages Mar 23, 2014 – Apr 4, 2014

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PATCH 1/1 userdomain: no longer allow unprivileged users to read kernel symbols

Unprivileged users don't need to read kallsyms and /boot/System.map.

This allow rule was introduced in the initial revision of userdomain.if in 2005, with commit b16c6b8c32a631a2e66265f6f60b664222760972:

    # cjp: why?
    bootloader_read_kernel_symbol_table($1_t)
---
 policy/modules/system/userdomain.if | 2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
policy/modules/system/userdomain.if +0 -2
index 73678bc..39e665d 100644
@@ -1005,8 +1005,6 @@ template(`userdom_unpriv_user_template', `
 	corenet_tcp_bind_xserver_port($1_t)
 
 	files_exec_usr_files($1_t)
-	# cjp: why?
-	files_read_kernel_symbol_table($1_t)
 
 	ifndef(`enable_mls',`
 		fs_exec_noxattr($1_t)
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PATCH 1/1 userdomain: no longer allow unprivileged users to read kernel symbols

Quoted 16 lines · Nicolas Iooss

Unprivileged users don't need to read kallsyms and /boot/System.map.

This allow rule was introduced in the initial revision of userdomain.if in 2005, with commit b16c6b8c32a631a2e66265f6f60b664222760972:

    # cjp: why?
    bootloader_read_kernel_symbol_table($1_t)
---
 policy/modules/system/userdomain.if | 2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
policy/modules/system/userdomain.if +0 -0
index 73678bc..39e665d 100644

policy/modules/system/userdomain.if template(`userdom_unpriv_user_template', ` · line 1010

Quoted 8 lines
policy/modules/system/userdomain.if +0 -2
@@ -1005,8 +1005,6 @@ template(`userdom_unpriv_user_template', `
 	corenet_tcp_bind_xserver_port($1_t)
 
 	files_exec_usr_files($1_t)
-	# cjp: why?
-	files_read_kernel_symbol_table($1_t)
 
 	ifndef(`enable_mls',`
 		fs_exec_noxattr($1_t)

Merged.

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Chris PeBenito
Tresys Technology, LLC
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